Chuck Schuldiner Project

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Mystifier - Goetia

Mystifier have always been able to
capture my imagination with there unique brand of buzzing guitars and
burbling vocals. Stripped down black metal taken to the logical
extreme Mystifier conjure up gloriously satanic imagery that forces
the listener to start into the triumphantly blackened pits of our
fucked up reality. What I'm trying to say is their new record – the
indomitable Goetia is the
kind of thing that assures me that the true spirit of black metal –
in its angriest and most demented form – will never die.

One
thing Mystifier really get is the importance of balance and dynamics.
While some their previous output felt a little too blasty. Goetia
sees the band dressing up their
own particular brand of occult black metal with some tasty little
frills – be it in the form of the gut wrenching grooves or the
synthesizers that manage to nicely flavor the entire affair What more
could you want from a black metal band who deliver utter occult
oppression to the listener? These guys understand what it means to
get truly bleak, they have scene the darkest dregs of humanity and
yet they don't care – marchinf on with crushing and insufferable
dominance.

As I type this –
sitting on the plane to Psycho California I can't help but smile at
the weird ways black metal records like this one have shaped my life.
What Mystifier seem to be turned on too is the impregnable eternity
of black metal. These guys take no shit and give no quarter. Instead
they rage, riot and slaughter their way through thirteen demented
tracks that will leave you whipped on the floor quivering – nay
begging more a moment of mercy in a twisted heart wrenching world
constructed of delusion.